Wandering the double mazes of infertility and living in a foreign culture.

Sunday, 19 June 2011

Thoughts on the pen...

Just a short update.

My injection this morning really stung! The others have been fine, yesterdays was really easy, but today was really difficult and stingy. I don't use ice, as the needle itself isn't that bad, but it was difficult to get the needle in this morning and then it was super-stingy the whole time.

I think I prefer the pen to the needles, but only just. At the moment it's pretty much six of one half dozen of the other. It's still sticking a needle in my belly at the end of the day!

Good luck tomorrow morning!I too had sometimes where the shots stung more than others. I wonder if those times when it did sting is when I hit closer to a nerve or blood vessel? I know sometimes I directly hit one and would have a nasty bruise for a while.

And I didn't think the pen was that big of an improvement over a syringe. Maybe a little easier, but once you are measuring everything else with a syringe I felt like it was easier to do it all the same way.

Hope it all goes brilliantly at the scan today. I agree with the others, that some days an injection would just hurt for no good reason - still the same with the progesterone shots that the nurses do.. Thinking of you xx